Friday, Oct. 26, 2018

Breast Cancer Awareness: When discussing treatments with their physicians, breast-cancer patients should ask questions about potential short- and long-term side effects, which can include fatigue, Lymphedema, and infertility. Comment

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018

Breast Cancer Awareness: Patients who want to continue working while receiving treatment for breast cancer can heed the following tips to overcome any cognitive effects of treatment so they can continue to perform their jobs. Comment

Friday, Oct. 19, 2018

Breast Cancer Awareness: The process of recovering is different for everyone, and not all mastectomies are the same, but this guide provides a general idea of what patients can expect before and after mastectomy surgery. Comment

Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018

Breast Cancer Awareness: Many people unwind with a glass of wine or a cocktail after a stressful day, and some research suggests that mild to moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages can have various health advantages — but not when it comes to breast cancer, some studies show. Comment

Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018

Breast Cancer Awareness: The American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, Brooklyn Walk edition, will take to the iconic Coney Island beachfront on Sunday, continuing a 16-year tradition of uniting supporters and survivors. Comment

Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018

The pink paper is here!

Breast Cancer Awareness: Are you impressed with our beautiful pink cover recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness month? I hope so, and I do hope you stop and read the pages that give you — both men and women — information that can save your life. Comment

Page 1: Once again, the Paper is trading its traditional blue for a pretty pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month this October. Read more about why we continue the beloved annual tradition in the above note from our president and publisher, and don’t forget to pick up a print edition of the special issue when it hits stands on Friday. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Read more…

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018

Fort Greene: A new learning hub set to open soon in the Brooklyn Navy Yard will churn out the borough’s next generation of scientists, mathematicians, engineers, artists — and chefs, its principal revealed on Wednesday. Comments (3)

Bridge ‘Park’: A buyer is in contract to purchase a penthouse unit inside the luxury condo tower going up at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park for more than $20 million — which would be the highest price ever paid for a piece of Kings County residential real estate — according to a building rep. Comments (2)

Prospect-Lefferts Gardens: A Prospect-Lefferts Gardens blogger swore to never again cover the neighborhood he wrote about for nearly a decade, or any surrounding areas, after a firebrand local anti-gentrification activist threatened to publicly denounce him as a racist for posting defamatory allegations about her on his website, “Q at Parkside.” Comments (22)

Downtown: State transit bigwigs recently opened a new elevator-equipped entrance to Downtown’s Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, improving the commutes of wheelchair-bound and stroller-pushing locals looking to catch a ride, a straphanger outside the hub told this newspaper. Comments (2)

Fort Greene: An Apple Store and Whole Foods outpost have opened at the bottom of developer Two Trees Management’s 300 Ashland tower on Ashland Place and Lafayette Avenue, but other commercial spaces — including a new Brooklyn Public Library location — show no signs of life. Click to read what our sister website, Brownstoner, found out about the long-awaited projects. Read more…

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Williamsburg: A woman told police that a man raped her on a Williamsburg street in the early morning on Oct. 4, but cops aren’t taking her word for it, and instead cited dark and grainy surveillance footage as evidence that she was a victim of attempted rape, according to officers and the public report they circulated following the incident. Comments (6)

Monday, Oct. 8, 2018

Fort Hamilton: The Feds dropped their case to deport undocumented immigrant and former pizza delivery man Pablo Villavicencio on Oct. 5, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York confirmed. Comments (12)

Bushwick: A man turned himself in to police on Monday less than an hour after officers announced they suspected he fatally gunned down his ex-girlfriend on a Bushwick street the night before. Comments (2)

Brooklyn Heights: Councilman Stephen Levin said had the BQE been fixed before Brooklyn Bridge Park was built, the roadway could easily have been diverted, and the Brooklyn Heights Association agreed. Comments (12)

Greenwood Heights: Five developers callously exposed workers to the carcinogenic fibers of asbestos at four buildings in Greenwood Heights in a bid to line their pockets, Kings County’s top prosecutor said during an argument on Wednesday. Comments (2)